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W. J. WALTERS. BUCKLE.

No. 405,514. Patented June 18, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WILLIAM J. WALTERS, or rnosrnc'r, NEW YORK.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,514, dated June 18,1889. Application filed March 5, 1889- Serial No. 301,884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ILLIAM J. WVALTERS, of Prospect, in the county ofOneida and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Buckles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to suspender and other like buckles provided witha hook or loop to receive the suspender-straps or other parts to beattached, as, for instance, by a ring carried by said straps or parts;and the invention is more particularly designed as an improvement uponthe buckle of this description for which Letters Patent No. 374,022,dated November 29, 1887, and Letters Patent No. 381,300, dated April 17,1888, were issued to me, and it will here be described accordingly.

The invention consists in a novel construe tion of parts, whereby thering which engages with the hook or loop of the buckle is restrainedfrom dropping off or becoming unduly detached from the hook or loop,substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a View in perspective of a buckle constructed as inmy aforesaid two Letters Patent and having my improvement, which is moreparticularly the subject of this specification, applied. Fig.2 shows afront View of said buckle as improved applied to the web of a pair ofsuspenders in part and with the Suspender-straps attached, and

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the same upon the line 90 as in Fig.2.

A is the frame of the buckle, which is provided with side bars I) Z),end bars 0 d, and a cross-bar e, secured to said side bars.

B is the clamp of the buckle, having ends f f adapted to slide on theside bars I) b of the frame, and provided with bars 9 g, ar ranged toproject down in front of the crossbar 6 and constructed to form a lowerhook or loop 77., also passing in rear of the lower end bar of the frameor through an opening 8 in the lower end of the frame, as shown, thewhole serving to press the web 0 of the suspender against the cross-bare, as in my two patents hereinbefore referred to.

I) indicates the suspender-straps provided with the usual ring or loop2' at their upper ends for engagement with the hook or loop h of theclamp 13.

In suspender-buckle devices of this description there is a liability ofthe suspender-straps D becoming detached from the buckle when theyshould not by the ring 2 working out of or dropping off the hook or looph of the buckle or its clamp, and a mere locking-spring to prevent thisis not a reliable device for the purpose, besides being expensive toattach and liable to break. To accomplish in a simple and practicablemanner what such spring has been designed to effect, I substitutetherefor positive stops on m on the lower end of the buckle-frame-one oneach side of the hook hand arranged to project toward the nose-endportion of said hook, but not coming in contact with it, so as to leavecontracted entering-spaces between the outer ends of said stops m m andthe nose-end portion of the hook h for the ringt' to pass through oneside of the hook h at a time, and so that when the ring i is pushed upit will simply pass under ,the stops m m and be arrested by them. Thesestops at m, I prefer to make integral with the lower end bar (Z of thebuckle by simply crooking said bar to form said stops m m, as shown inthe drawings, and by which construction great strength and simplicityare secured. To take the ring 1' off the hook h when necessary, it issimply pressed by or past one projection or stop m, and afterward by orpast the other projection or stop m, and it may be similarly entered toengage with the hook again.

If desired, the bottom of the buckle-frame can be made of a separatepiece of wire, which, when the buckle is closed,will form a spring. Thiswill provide for the easy unhinging or unfastening of the buckle bypressing down 011 the spring with the thumb.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the suspenderbuckle frame A, provided with sidebars I) b, a cross-bar e, secured to said side bars, an upperend bar 0,and a lower end bar (1, eonthe lower end of the clamp between the stopsstrncted to form downwardly and forwardly or projections m m,essentially as and for the mo projecting separated stops or projectionsm purposes herein set forth.

m, of the clamp B, having ends f f adapted 5 to slide on the side bars19 b of the buckle- VVILLIAH J. XVALTERS.

frame, and having bars g g passing over the 'Wit-nesses: cross-bar c andback of or through the lower 0. B. HODGE, end bar d, and constructed toform a hook h at R. E. DAVIES.

